The Damned - Grimly Fiendish

Great Performance

[@VampyreCake]

It'll always be The Damned as long as Vanian's still going. You can't replace that voice.

[@TheSnowballEarth]

This was the song that turned me on to The Damned back in the mid-80's. Brilliant tune, and I fell in love w/ everything they did before and have done since. Proud to say that I've had the honor to see them live when they came to The Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC back in 2001. One of my all-time favorite bands!

[@tandie13]

in the darkness in my comfortable bed next to my window were i feel the nice breeze come inside from the calm night that wanders around outside, i drift into sleep listening to this song, simply amazing..

[@vermilliongecko]

Rest easy, Willie 'Blaise' Algar, seen here playing trumpet for The Damned on Whistle Test in 1985.

[@NellSmith]

One of the best tracks ever written by a truly original and excellent band. Wow, this takes me back... going on long drives in the countryside (me and my sis, and our respective boyfriends) with the sole intention of listening to the album this comes from (Phantasmagoria - amazing) from start to finish, at 120 dB or thereabouts on a £3,000 (back in the early 90s!) car stereo... about as good as it gets :) And wow, Dave Vanian simply defines sex appeal, for me... looks, dress AND voice! :D

[@Sassenach1367]

Oh how I miss those times, and actually now I see it, cos the music and the bands most of them don't have it anymore! Or maybe, just maybe I'M OLD? but hey love to see them again..or!

[@GrimlyFiendishJr]

sigh...my birthsong...and with passing dates, still The Fallible Fiend...my undying thanx to a Damned great band...Pleasant Screams from under the bridge...

[@redhedd73]

Ahhhh, he was gorgeous...

[@franco4322]

redhedd73 they were*

[@stevepqrclaret]

Saw the Damned several times back in the 80s - Black album, MGE and Phantasmagoria are by far their best work

[@kagsmc]

Awesome song from an awesome band - love 'em always!

[@DeanFirefly]

Damned play pop, still pure theatre. Great to see again, thanks for sharing.

[@tebb1t]

First time I saw the Damned was in this era, twenty odd years on and i still am in love, superb!

[@tebb1t]

I saw this on whistle test in the mid eighties, was a fan ever since

[@stevensheldon4655]

Great live performance! ♥️👍

[@gazzabel7040]

This was when the dammed really got it together and became superbly creative a totally different sound and image but they made it big deserved it …that album phantasmagoria and anything where a breath of fresh air

[@Squeaky1423]

Loved them back in the day, finally saw them play a Halloween show a couple of years and they were *AMAZING!!!!*

[@Glowb0t]

Please, whoever makes boys, whoever you are, please make more boys with the desire to have dave vanian hair. *sigh*

[@jamesboulger8705]

Lol not even Dave Vanian has Dave Vanian hair anymore.

[@Mia-N-Dan]

Fuck that just look like him period! Id be so bad lad bad boy with Dave fuq Patricia

[@tebb1t]

The song that got me into the Damned twenty four years later still love it and them

[@Paulinoo]

Great performance, love this song!

[@bonhamclackey574]

So glad they got Rat back. The Damned is truly back.

[@skidsaregod]

spot on this still sounds top! Bit of ska there in the background too!! Mint!

[@jamesboulger8705]

I always love this performance.

[@jimmybonifacio6734]

Damn...hot Damned here I am!!! Brings back memories, thanks for posting!

[@spw143]

Dave V...he was beautiful.

[@ofevanian]

I love my Vanian♥

[@Takac1979]

My favorite Damned album!

[@4490red]

I saw these guys at the hollywood Palladium on their so called " fare well tour" way back in high school. cool band. scabies lit his drumset on fire. it was great.

[@doriginal69]

Love this song.

[@SMP2059]

That was glorious!

[@CircusOfHeaven]

this performance is soooo absolutely amazing. could anyone who doesn't know any of it at all believe that same guy was a gravedigger?! oooooh what a beautiful idol

[@phantasmbunny]

Great rendition of this.

[@evilemonattack]

i love this song so much

[@romyroo123]

(yorknomads) If your asking me, hah, yeah he did do papa loco a little while ago. He's still does some recording an that, and i think he mentioned doing a new album not too long ago now. So listen out! Its good stuff. Im proud to be his daughter, talented bloke. x

[@Ben4810]

I think this was their first public airing & performance without the Captain.....from BBC2's Old Grey Whistle Test in '85.....? It was huge shock to hear the presenter & top bloke Mark Ellen announce 'without The Captain....' but it was a great single & album, & the Captain's subsequent solo releases are still, even now, staggeringly good pieces to listen to....check 'em out....!!!

[@FlowersOfChel]

Roman Jugg It's Amazing.

[@stevensheldon4655]

Genius!❤❤

[@babsygirl1]

@NightNurseBetty i still listen to this on my old vinyl. edward the bear is my favorite

[@butchliebscher]

phantasmagoria...great album.

[@AxeNewkill]

I am so glad I found this video! The music video is great, and THIS live version is great, but there is another live version posted on youtube that is embarrassingly horrible and Dave is missing half the notes. This live version shows that they CAN perform flawlessly LIVE.

[@mariaantoniatantinaserra5833]

del millor que han fet en directe, gran vanian

[@9graff9]

Love this song... im gonna see them on October 30, 08!!

[@livingdeadpunk138]

You can find it in the MCA Singles compilation, released in 1992.

[@carpenoctem66]

My life would be complete if I could play the harpsichord part to this.

[@xyaqua]

David Vanian: the Gothfather.

[@papiroc]

impresionante..... sencillamente increible verlos!!!!!!!!

[@doristhistleton3575]

more bands like this please 👻❤️❤️

[@DerSchwarzePlanet]

Looking forward seeing them live at WGT 2011!! **yeah**

[@kodapix]

Not only that, but we were the first to do it, so we took all the risks, got our arses kicked sometimes, got fired from jobs, all that good stuff, LOL! We were the rebel generation. : )

[@cherylchaison5085]

The punk damned goth damned the best versatile band the damned

[@FromaTwistedMind]

This song is about a character from a brilliant 70`s UK comic- Shiver `n Shake(fleetwood)- The artist(possible)? Leo Baxendale, had a real punk attitude to his work. - Grimley is the Damned personified! Brilliant track

[@joestraughan3944]

classic and brilliant!

[@godfatherNYC]

Phantasmagoria

[@romyroo123]

Romans my dad. This is a tune.

[@itsallgroovy]

I luv luv this song! \m/

[@RedQueenCreative_Roxie]

I want Dave Vanian's hair...

[@FabiolaRVela]

Me too 😭💙

[@Craptavaganza]

Me too!

[@youjoker9647]

What, thinning?

[@scottoliver8383]

Alone again is always awesome to hear and smash it up

[@scottoliver8383]

Oh oh the punk goth days is still in my blood.F I'm old now ? Haha

[@Lobotomyu]

I wouldn't doubt it as he makes multiple reference to Goth music in his Films.

[@KatHazelton]

He's so cool

[@powderfinger71]

This performance is from Whistle Test ,still got it on vhs somewhere

[@godzillamoraga]

@Hankdriver i'm a big Misfits fan (Original Misfits) and they toured with the Damnedin London and Glen is a big fan of the Damned.

[@PrimetimeD]

The Damned friggin' rule.

[@wafflealien]

:D love this song

[@godzillamoraga]

@Hankdriver and Danzig wanted to have a band with Dave Vanian as the singer. they were unable to do it so you have Samhain. Also the Damned were the 1st punk bandto get signed to major label, before the Sex Pistols. Great band!

[@romyroo123]

Erm, (yorknomads) ill talk to him and see where you can get a copy, he might still be on myspace, im not sure though.

[@joestraughan3944]

Superb!

[@purplepiggie001]

too bloody right

[@FlowersOfChel]

you are the crap the damned kick ass miss roman jugg and rat scabies great guys.

[@emanuelcirujavallejo8672]

Exelente 🍻🍻

[@OFR]

The musical ideas of the 'bad lad bad boy" section are taken from "Our Love Was" by The Who!

[@findlaybears]

i always wonder how some people just keep creating years on, always never stop-some are incredible im blown away. u know how hard it is towrite music, originally, not ez, !

[@JanderVK]

Tilo with less hair haha Actually Dominic LaVey and even Louis DeWray of Nosferatu always reminded me of him (obvious influence), and Rat Scabies has recorded with them a few times.

[@MrHodgeheg123]

12 Are Grimly Fiendish

[@franco4322]

oh my fucking god they are the best punk band ever

[@johnmacleod4481]

just to find that crime would pay just for today lyrics you'll find in no other song.

[@bobbydoorknocker]

Only one word for him....PHWOAR!

[@alterhongo]

@TransparentVisions still i think that phantasmagoria and especialy grave disorder are the greatest abums of the deamned... but their whole discography is awsome...

[@bellamorte7308]

i love u.

[@doors21st]

@Stonehenge40 I Agree 100% and The Damned's cover of L.A. Woman is the best version IMHO.

[@gorgonjola]

perfecto

[@Fractalite]

Sounds like Madness ....must have been the times .

[@jamiestevens4384]

Fractalite always reminds me of madness could have easily been a madness song

[@slacknhash]

There is a certain Mike Barsonish quality to the keyboards, and I could easily hear Suggs singing this.

[@fullskapunkalchemist3471]

I still feel this song takes it one step beyond anything madness ever did.

[@gewglesux]

I heard this on "darkwave" on sat radio.. OMG !! i actually got here other than by knowing good music.. I feel like the kids now who get here because of their favorite song is now part of a toilet paper commercial. i'm ashamed..

[@stevobath]

So true...Just loads of sheep with their 'street' look.How sad things are now.Glad I grew up in the 80s for that reason.

[@stevobath]

Dont know what clubs you went to? I lived in Bournemouth & there were great clubs.The gay ones were pretty fun & there were some good alternative venues too.

[@albaniantruffles]

QUALITY!

[@gutyovares9056]

The Damned

[@dtaite]

@tamarware they are still gigging new tour next yeare

[@juanchososa9007]

💗💖

[@BlackTeddies]

How do I know of these guys? Being completely honest a guy asked who I thought was better Dave Vanian or Andrew Eldritch, and I had no clue who Dave Vanian was but I do now :)

[@noodleboyn6367]

RIP Leo Baxendale

[@godzillamoraga]

@deathtoakira666 Damned formed in 1976. Misfits 1977

[@CircusOfHeaven]

you go! :D

[@tebb1t]

@scarletpie it isn't mine, but it is the song that got me into them, so for that I am eternally grateful, though I doubt if they have done on I dislike, still a great song though and as I kid I loved Grimly Fiendish in the Monster Fun annuals. Enjoy, and cheers mate

[@Mia-N-Dan]

Bad lad boy! If be so bad with Dave Vanian! Not sorry Patricia Morrison I mean you had Andrew SoM! Need more Dave V 🖤 PHANTAStic!!!!

[@lizbet666]

hi all,,, does anyone remember the b side to this? edward the bear? brilliant but cant find it on here :-(

[@00NJE00]

Can't believe they've changed this much. Not to mention Sid Vicious could have been the lead singer.. That would have turned out very differently. I love them though :)

[@evildarren1690]

DAVE IS THE MAN

[@carolinapdx]

Dave is hoooooot.

[@deathtoakira666]

@Hankdriver 1977-1983, 1995-present Misfits 1976-1988 The Damned sorry one year get you facts right years befor lmao

[@SteveRes]

storming live version

[@invaderace777]

His Hair with the white streak reminds me of Marc Bolan during the later years of bolans career so i think sweeney was a marc bolan / Dave vanian combo

[@gewglesux]

@YumiSonohara Hi Yumi, Top tune this!! you agree? I dont think i would have ever found this tune without my SAT radio. the radio is not what it used to me... i still listen to a lot of college radio.. Are you in Japan? my GF is there.. with out me?:( thanks for the reply